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We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams. — Roald Dahl

I never get any protests from children. All you get are giggles of mirth and squirms of delight. I know what children like. — Roald Dahl

it is like choosing from a menu. — Roald Dahl

We is in Dream Country,' the BFG said. 'This is where all dreams is beginning. — Roald Dahl

All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen. — Roald Dahl

Life is more fun if you play games. — Roald Dahl

Men were foolish and were made only so that they should die, while mountains and rivers went on for ever and did not notice the passing of time. — Roald Dahl

I'm wondering what to read next. — Roald Dahl

I always thought that a veruca was a sort of wart that you got on the sole of your foot! — Roald Dahl

The very rich are enormously resentful of bad weather. It is the one discomfort that their money cannot do anything about. — Roald Dahl

The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. — Roald Dahl

I am suspicious of both facility and speed. — Roald Dahl

Had I not had children of my own, I would have never written books for children, nor would I have been capable of doing so. — Roald Dahl

The nastier the dream, the angrier it is getting when it is in prison,' the BFG said. — Roald Dahl

Everything and all of them were being rattled around like peas inside an enormous rattle that was being rattled by a mad giant who refused to stop. — Roald Dahl

Well not exactly," the father said."Nobody could do that. but it didn't take me long ... — Roald Dahl

I'm wondering what to read next." Matilda said. "I've finished all the children's books. — Roald Dahl

It was an unhappy truth, he told himself, that nearly all people in the world behave badly when there is something really big at stake. — Roald Dahl

It was slowly beginning to dawn upon Henry that nothing is any fun if you can get as much of it as you want. Especially money. — Roald Dahl

You should be able to make a scene come alive in the reader's mind. Not everybody has this ability. It is a gift, and you either have it or you don't. — Roald Dahl

Fiona has the same glacial beauty of an iceburg, but unlike the iceburg she has absolutely nothing below the surface. — Roald Dahl

There's nothin' you can get from a book that you can't get from a television fastah!
-Harry Wormwood — Roald Dahl

We all have our moments of brilliance and glory, and this was mine. — Roald Dahl

This Giant had some sort of magic in his legs. — Roald Dahl

Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English. — Roald Dahl

Your daughter's a cheat and a liar, the father said, — Roald Dahl

The secret of life', he said, 'is to become very very good at somethin' that's very very 'ard to do. — Roald Dahl

She sat there majestic in her armchair, filling every inch of it. Not even a mouse could have squeezed in to sit beside her. — Roald Dahl

The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him. — Roald Dahl

However small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance was there. — Roald Dahl

I love Roald Dahl. — Tyra Banks

I'd rather be fried alive and eaten by Mexicans. — Roald Dahl

The teeth of the dreadly viper is still sticking into me!' he yelled. 'I is feeling the teeth sticking into my anklet! — Roald Dahl

For whipping cream, of course. How can you whip cream without whips? — Roald Dahl

I cannot be helping it if I sometimes is saying things a little squiggly. I — Roald Dahl

Their skin hung loose over their bodies like suits they had inherited from larger ancestors, with the trousers ridiculously baggy. — Roald Dahl

There's more food in one bottle of beer, me lad, than twenty sandwiches. — Roald Dahl

Whether it was true or false seems ultimately of little importance.
Donald Sturrock in 'Storyteller. The Life of Roald Dahl — Donald Sturrock

Any conversation including the mention of Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, or Emily Dickinson is one worth getting into or at least eavesdropping. — Don Roff

This morning from a halibut. — Roald Dahl

But where, you might ask, is this book that the BFG wrote? It's right here. You've just finished reading it. — Roald Dahl

Twenty-four feet is puddlenuts in Giant Country. — Roald Dahl

No-one got rich being honest, the customers have to be diddled — Roald Dahl

Anyone can ask questions," said Mr. Wonka. "It's the answers that count. — Roald Dahl

To shipbrokers, coal was black gold. — Roald Dahl

As though it had come to the top of the hill and gone over a precipice, — Roald Dahl

Don't gobblefunk around with words. — Roald Dahl

Badger: The cuss you are.
Mr. Fox: The cuss am I? Are you cussing with me? — Roald Dahl

The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it. — Roald Dahl

The air became colder still and everything became paler — Roald Dahl

An idiotic vitch like you
Must rrroast upon the barbecue! — Roald Dahl

The only sensible thing to do when you are attacked is, as Napoleon once said, to counter-attack. — Roald Dahl

Black suit arrived at the house carrying a brief-case, and he held a long conversation with my grandmother in the — Roald Dahl

This, he thought, is what hell must be like. Hell without heat. There was something unholy about it all, something unbelievably diabolical. — Roald Dahl

I is THE BIG FRIENDLY GIANT! I is the BFG. What is your name? — Roald Dahl

I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach'. — Dave Eggers

as much as the next man, — Roald Dahl

I has told you five or six times,' he said, 'and the third will be the last. — Roald Dahl

I am the maker of music, the dreamer of dreams! — Roald Dahl

Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you. — Roald Dahl

Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world. — Roald Dahl

The Alexander Technique works ... I recommend it enthusiastically to anyone who has neck pains or back pain. — Roald Dahl

Hey!' Bruno called out 'Give me the rest of that banana I was eating. — Roald Dahl

let your love out — Roald Dahl

Careful those who fight with monsters, that they might become monsters themeselves. — Roald Dahl

The snozberries taste like snozberries! — Roald Dahl

Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful. — Roald Dahl

What sort of a book would you like to read next? she asked. — Roald Dahl

What she needed was just one person, one wise and sympathetic grown-up who could help her. — Roald Dahl

There are no secrets unless you keep them to yourself, and this was the greatest secret I had ever had to keep in my life so far. — Roald Dahl

I don't care if a reader hates one of my stories, Just as long as he finishes the book. — Roald Dahl

The President sucked in his breath sharply. He also sucked in a big fly that happened to be passing at the time. He choked. — Roald Dahl

I want an Oompa-Loompa!' screamed Veruca. — Roald Dahl

Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve. — Roald Dahl

I can see you is not born last week. — Roald Dahl

Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets. — Roald Dahl

The books gave Matilda a comforting message: You are not alone." -Matilda — Roald Dahl

We've got a lovely telly with a twelve-inch screen and now you come asking for a book! You're getting spoiled, my girl! — Roald Dahl

If my books can help children become readers, then I feel I have accomplished something important. — Roald Dahl

Children should never have baths,' my grandmother said. 'It's a dangerous
habit.'
'I agree, Grandmamma. — Roald Dahl

The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by. — Roald Dahl

A little magic can take you a long way. — Roald Dahl

It is almost worth going away because it's so lovely coming back. — Roald Dahl

Augustus Gloop! Augustus Gloop!
The great big greedy nincompoop! — Roald Dahl

I like enthusiasts of any kind. — Roald Dahl

Eschew all those beastly adjectives ... — Roald Dahl

She resented being told constantly that she was stupid, when she knew she wasn't. — Roald Dahl

If it's by an American it's certain to be filth. That's all they write about. — Roald Dahl

A bad girl is a far more dangerous thing than a bad boy. — Roald Dahl

What on earth were you trying to do, make yourself look handsome or something? You look like someone's grandmother gone wrong! — Roald Dahl

Come right up close to me and I will show you something wonderful. — Roald Dahl

Candy is dandy but liqueur is quicker. — Roald Dahl

There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination. — Roald Dahl

Mice, I felt pretty certain, all like each other. People don't. — Roald Dahl

A newt, she decided, was a useful thing to have around. — Roald Dahl

Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it. — Roald Dahl

Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration. — Roald Dahl

Kindness - that simple word. To be kind - it covers everything, to my mind. If you're kind that's it. — Roald Dahl

I grew up reading Stephen King, Peter Straub, Clive Barker, Robert McCammon, Isaac Asimov's nonfiction books, and Roald Dahl. — Nnedi Okorafor

We make realities out of our dreams and dreams out of our realities. We are the dreamers of the dream. — Roald Dahl